βάκλον
From LSJ
ἢ λέγε τι σιγῆς κρεῖττον ἢ σιγὴν ἔχε → either say something better than silence or keep silence (Menander)
English (LSJ)
τό, = Lat.
A baculum, stick, cudgel, Aesop.188, Sch.Ar.Pl. 476 (pl.): pl., βάκυλα, = Lat. fasces, Plu.Rom.26:—hence βακλίζω, cudgel, PMasp.5.18(vi A. D.).
